EIA: US Residential Electric Prices Set To Drop For 1st Time Since 2002
"After years of slow, steady growth, residential electric prices are poised to decline for the first time in nearly a decade and a half."
Source: Utility Dive, 10/10/2016
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"Americans Bought More EVs Last Month Than Ever Before"
"US plug-in vehicle sales reached a quarterly record for the three-month period that ended September 30, as demand improved for plug-in models such as the Tesla Model S battery-electric vehicle and the Chevrolet Volt extended-range plug-in, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)."
Source: Autoblog, 10/10/2016
"SF Bay Ecosystem Collapsing As Rivers Diverted, Scientists Report"
"Evidence of what scientists are calling the planet’s Sixth Mass Extinction is appearing in San Francisco Bay and its estuary, the largest on the Pacific Coast of North and South America, according to a major new study."
Source: San Francisco Chronicle, 10/10/2016
World Aims To Curb Planet-Warming HFCs This Week
World environmental leaders gather in Kigali, Rwanda, October 10-14 in an effort to finalize an agreement on limiting hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), gases used as refrigerants that also boost greenhouse warming.
Source: ClimateWire, 10/10/2016
"Federal Court Denies Tribe's Request to Halt Dakota Access Pipeline"
"A federal court on Sunday rejected the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's request to halt construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, which the tribe says would destroy some of its sacred sites."
Source: NBC News, 10/10/2016
"Climate Change Treated as Afterthought in Second Presidential Debate"
"Following the devastation from Hurricane Matthew and a campaign urging moderators to ask a climate question, the issue was again ignored."
Source: InsideClimate News, 10/10/2016
"Coastal Florida Cleans Up Wreckage Of Powerful Storm Matthew"
"ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Joan Galasso walked through the empty wreck of the waterfront seafood restaurant she and her husband started a quarter-century ago and was horrified."
Source: Reuters, 10/10/2016
"Owners Of Former East Chicago Lead Factories Named In Suit"
"Residents of the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago want the operators of two former lead factories to pay for their relocation."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 10/07/2016
"California Tightens Rule On Popular Pesticide, Citing Health"
"California will tighten rules on how much farmers can use a common pesticide listed by the nation's most productive agricultural state as a chemical known to cause cancer, regulators said Thursday."
Source: AP, 10/07/2016
Methane Emissions Up -- But Uptick is from Ag, Landfills, Wetlands
"The amount of methane in the atmosphere is growing, but it’s not coming from where you think. While methane from fracking and other fossil-fuel activity hasn’t increased over the last 10 years, agriculture, landfills, and wetlands are getting gassier, according to a new study in Nature."
Source: Grist, 10/07/2016
